Software Asset Management
Software Asset Management (SAM) is rapidly becoming a global standard, due to the legal and financial implications of incompliancy. Vendor driven licensing audits are becoming common practice and software owners do not wish to be caught unprepared.
Insight Offers The Following Range Of Software Services:
- License Reconciliation Service
- Insight:LicenseAdvisor
- SAM Assurance
- SAM ISO Assessment
- SAM Desk
The License Reconciliation Service - Ensuring Software Compliance
To ensure software compliance, it is imperative for organisations to understand what software is deployed and equally important to understand exactly what software is actually used before making any investment or changes. Insight’s License Reconciliation Service (LRS) can deliver this visibility. The LRS process involves comparing the installed and used software products with existing software license entitlement documentation, providing comprehensive reports and recommended actions to ensure full compliancy.
Insight:LicenseAdvisor - A comprehensive license management tool
In order to facilitate your software management, Insight has developed a comprehensive application, Insight:LicenseAdvisor, that integrates your existing processes, creating a single software asset management solution. It is a solution that will allow you to gain control over your software assets, to enable you to purchase, deploy and manage software quickly and cost-efficiently.
What makes Insight:LicenseAdvisor such a great solution?
The tool focuses on the single most important factor, driving every aspect of software management: entitlement. Insight:LicenseAdvisor will help you to quickly determine:
- Who is entitled to purchase a software license
- The right media for a license entitlement
- How to entitle users, groups and the enterprise to receive software
- The best way for users to request entitlement
- How to manage entitlements going forward
It all adds up to a system that ensures companies get what they are entitles to from their software.
SAM Assurance - Keep control over your software licenses
Software licenses cost money and they influence your IT budget enormously. If you are not licensed correctly, you will face two major problems:
- Legal, in case you use more licenses than purchased.
- Budget, in case you have bought more licenses than you need.
By defining and implementing Software Asset Management (SAM) processes you are able to create transparency and compliance. Also you make sure that your budget for software licenses is used in an efficient way. SAM is no witchcraft but it needs broad knowledge and experience with software inventories and license instructions of vendors. Leverage the experience of the Insight SAM Consultants and more than 200 successful projects.
Insight consultants offer a continuous service through SAM Assurance, comparing your actual number of licenses and SAM processes on a regular basis.
- SAM Assurance provides permanent transparency on the software usage
- SAM Assurance documents your licence compliance on a regular basis – also towards third parties like software vendors
- SAM Assurance supports your planning of the software budget – you will only calculate with the number of software licenses actually needed
- SAM Assurance helps improving your purchasing processes – and protects you from maverick software purchases
SAM ISO Assessment - Evaluate your SAM Processes based on the international Standards and find improvement potential
The SAM ISO Assessment is based on the ISO/IEC 19770-1 standard for Software Asset Management. This standard has been developed to enable organisations to check whether they perform Software Asset Management to a standard sufficient to satisfy corporate governance requirements.
The assessment sets all relevant corporate processes against the ISO/IEC 19770-1 standard processes and procedures, offering organisations an insight into their SAM status, and comparing this to an independent internationally accepted, norm.
SAM Desk - Offering the expertise you need
With an average of 600 different software applications installed within a company, the
management of software assets is becoming increasingly complex and difficult. Knowing that each software vendor has its own licensing policies only adds to the confusion. Companies, for which software is not the core business, often find themselves lost in this maze of vendor specific policies and procedures.
Over the years Insight has build up a thorough knowledge of software asset management, vendor policies and procedures, contract specifications, etc. As a trusted advisor to its clients, Insight’s Client Solutions Team offers this knowledge to you, in order to help you where needed.
Complex Software Management
Insight’s SAM Desk is a ‘made-to-measure’ service for clients who need assistance with any aspect of their software management. It is an Enterprise level solution that can help you take control of your IT costs, of the complex issue of global licensing and the legal aspects of license compliance.
A tailored offering
The SAM Desk solution contains an array of individual services which can be selected and combined to deliver a tailored offering to suite your specific requirements, including:
- License analysis
- Individual company license pool
- License and expenditure benchmarking
- License monitoring
- License tracking and reconciliation with current needs
- Management of license benefits
- Assistance with licensing decisions
This is dependent on the requirements of the client. The result is an onsite or offsite managed solution delivered by Insight’s highly specialized SAM and licensing experts.
